Wednesday, June 4th - Today In History...

June 4, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today is Wednesday June 4th and has historically proven to be busy!

What are your plans for today? Will you make history? Every day we have the opportunity to make history, do something great and make a difference. What will you do?

Here are some historical events that took place on previous June 4th...

781 BC - Oldest Chinese recording of a solar eclipse.

1039 - Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.

1070 - Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France.

1133 - Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German emperor.

1391 - Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds & sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery.

1487 - Lord Lovell & John de la Poles army land at Furness Lancashire.

1615 - Siege of Osaka: Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.

1632 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Venlo.

1647 - English Parliamentary army under Cornet George Joyce takes King Charles I as a prisoner during Second Civil War.

1664 - Viceroy Willem Frederik conquerors Dijlerschans.

1666 - Battle at Dunkirk: English vs Dutch fleet.

1741 - Prussia goes to the Covenant of Nymphenburg.

1745 - Battle at Hohenfriedberg Silezie: Frederick the Great (Prussia) defeats Austrians and Saxons.

1756 - Quakers leave assembly of Pennsylvania.

1760 - Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians.

 1892 - The Sierra Club, led by John Muir, was incorporated in San Francisco.

1896 - Henry Ford took his first car out for a test drive.

1942 - The Battle of Midway, a decisive Allied victory in World War II, began.

1944 - The U.S. Fifth Army entered Rome, leading to the liberation of the city during World War II.

1968 - Dorothy Gish, American actress who starred in many silent-film classics, died.

1989 - People's Army of China opened fire on crowds of prodemocracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, killing thousands.

1992 - The U.S. Post Office announced that in a poll, people preferred the "young Elvis" stamp to the "old Elvis" stamp.

2003 - Martha Stewart was indicted on charges of insider trading.

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